It is sometimes difficult for SQL users to learn Pig because their mind is used to working in SQL. In this tutorial, examples of various SQL statements are shown, and then translated into Pig statements.

My notes on the Hadoop Summit '09 conference in Santa Clara this year. The conference was very energetic, and Hadoop's momentum is undeniable.

I recently found the need to sort by value (intead of key) in Hadoop. Essentially, I wanted the reducer's values iterator to be sorted. There seem to be almost no docs, tutorials, or examples (that I could find) on the net for this.